60


GLOBAL ENVIRONMENT OUTLOOK FOR YOUTH IN ASIA AND THE PACIFIC


Figure 31: Night-time lights across Asia and the Pacific Source: NASA’s DMSP-OLS satellite.


This chapter highlights selected resilience and sustainability measures that can be implemented in towns and cities now to ensure that our communities, as well as future generations, will be able to deal with the challenges our region faces. Sections 4.2 and 4.3 deal with building the resilience of towns and cities to climate-related disasters and rising temperatures, while Section 4.4 covers potential measures that can be taken within the built environment to address the use of the limited natural resources including fossil fuels, land and water. Box 19 summarizes the key issues and selected measures highlighted in this chapter, together with the related SDGs.


4.2 Know disaster, no disaster It’s raining, it’s pouring, we’d better not be snoring


Disasters linked to extreme weather events, particularly those related to climate change, have been increasing in frequency globally since the 1940’s, with the most common types being floods (Figure 32) and drought (Munang et al. 2015). The Asia-Pacific region has the highest number of extreme weather events in the world (Guha-Sapir et al. 2016) and, throughout the region, the frequency, magnitude and impact of these events are increasing due to climate change (IPCC 2014). These facts really drive home the need for action to ensure


Page 1  |  Page 2  |  Page 3  |  Page 4  |  Page 5  |  Page 6  |  Page 7  |  Page 8  |  Page 9  |  Page 10  |  Page 11  |  Page 12  |  Page 13  |  Page 14  |  Page 15  |  Page 16  |  Page 17  |  Page 18  |  Page 19  |  Page 20  |  Page 21  |  Page 22  |  Page 23  |  Page 24  |  Page 25  |  Page 26  |  Page 27  |  Page 28  |  Page 29  |  Page 30  |  Page 31  |  Page 32  |  Page 33  |  Page 34  |  Page 35  |  Page 36  |  Page 37  |  Page 38  |  Page 39  |  Page 40  |  Page 41  |  Page 42  |  Page 43  |  Page 44  |  Page 45  |  Page 46  |  Page 47  |  Page 48  |  Page 49  |  Page 50  |  Page 51  |  Page 52  |  Page 53  |  Page 54  |  Page 55  |  Page 56  |  Page 57  |  Page 58  |  Page 59  |  Page 60  |  Page 61  |  Page 62  |  Page 63  |  Page 64  |  Page 65  |  Page 66  |  Page 67  |  Page 68  |  Page 69  |  Page 70  |  Page 71  |  Page 72  |  Page 73  |  Page 74  |  Page 75  |  Page 76  |  Page 77  |  Page 78  |  Page 79  |  Page 80  |  Page 81  |  Page 82  |  Page 83  |  Page 84  |  Page 85  |  Page 86  |  Page 87  |  Page 88  |  Page 89  |  Page 90  |  Page 91  |  Page 92  |  Page 93  |  Page 94  |  Page 95  |  Page 96  |  Page 97  |  Page 98  |  Page 99  |  Page 100  |  Page 101  |  Page 102  |  Page 103  |  Page 104  |  Page 105  |  Page 106  |  Page 107  |  Page 108  |  Page 109  |  Page 110  |  Page 111  |  Page 112  |  Page 113  |  Page 114  |  Page 115  |  Page 116  |  Page 117  |  Page 118  |  Page 119  |  Page 120